In my last post, I went into near-painful detail describing the various daily personal care tasks for which Jeanne required assistance. Everything from feeding tube feedings and receiving her meds 4 times a day to being turned in her hospital bed every two hours. Based upon these needs, the Medicare Gods have smiled upon us and deigned that she receive personal care assistance.
The specific assistance Jeanne will receive? Someone will come to our home three times a week to bathe her. That's it.
Medications? Nutrition? Turning her to avoid bed sores (these can be fatal to someone in Jeanne's condition)? Nope. She's on her own there. But stopping by to give her a mini-spa treatment? We're covered.
It's not that I'm not appreciative of the help. And I know that Jeanne will enjoy the pampering. But how in the world do the Medicare Powers That Be make choices based upon some set of health care priorities where THIS is what gets covered at the expense of all else???
And so my Great Medicare Coverage Experiment comes to an end. And the outcome? Too strange to characterize.
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Posted by: claudia sound | February 08, 2008 at 11:03 AM